For those of you whose young kids never get sick

[Anonymous]

Most kids will get hit with a bout of illnesses at some point. My kid went to daycare and yes, in that first two years he got all kinds of things, although he always seemed to have them with less severity than the other kids. He’s now a high school senior, and I think he had exactly two sick days in all of elementary school, none in middle school, and he just had Covid so he was out feeling poorly more than all his other school years combined. As an aside, my mother was a hyper-clean, bubble wrap kind of parent so I skipped many of the childhood diseases. Guess what, when my son caught them in daycare, I also got them - I had hand foot and mouth as a 40 year old! You have to pay the piper at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.

- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).

- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.

- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.

- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)

- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.

- No pets and no smoking household.

- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.

- Change clothes once you come home.

- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.

- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.

- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.

- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.

- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.

What a ridiculous bubble

[Anonymous]

My kids are never sick. Oldest didn’t have any antibiotics till she was 5 years old.

They are gross. Sucked their thumbs and touched everything until they were 6 years old. Go to daycare. Public transportation. Pets. Basically everything the other poster above said they won’t do. Never sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine were both very healthy. No daycare but PT preschool starting at age 3. Maybe 1-2 colds a year. Can’t really think of other illnesses they have had. We don’t really get stomach stuff in our family. All vaccines including regular flu shots. Plenty of handwashing. No shoes indoors. Early bedtimes.

Ugh I thought we didn't either and then we went to an ice cream factory in Lancaster PA. Pretty sure that was norovirus. Both kids got it - one on the way home the next day, in the car. Washed hands frantically about 500 times a day and DH and I didn't get it, but that was a very rough week! And the kids weren't toddlers either, they were 7 and 10. Awful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What do you do differently?

My younger daycare kid eats healthier than you older one does and gets way less sick but wondering if its a coincidence

Nothing I have one who always got sick and one who never did. It just happens.

Same - one kid always got sick and the other didn't. I did nothing different.

Yep. I have two of each. Did nothing different.

Same. My kids went to the same daycare, preschool, elementary, summer camps, etc., and eat the same diet. One gets sick more than the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.

- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).

- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.

- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.

- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)

- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.

- No pets and no smoking household.

- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.

- Change clothes once you come home.

- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.

- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.

- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.

- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.

- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.

What a ridiculous bubble

Are you OCD? This is insane. No cold drinks? Rinse their mouths with salt water? WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are never sick. Oldest didn’t have any antibiotics till she was 5 years old.

They are gross. Sucked their thumbs and touched everything until they were 6 years old. Go to daycare. Public transportation. Pets. Basically everything the other poster above said they won’t do. Never sick.

Same. Rarely sick.

[Anonymous]

Vaccine s
Hand washing
Masking when necessary

Staying away from maga

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing.

One kid sick with covid 3x and flu at least once in 2025.
Another kid never sick but did have frequent ear infections.

It's luck & genetics.

No its not luck & genetics. Its lazy parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.

- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).

- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.

- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.

- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)

- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.

- No pets and no smoking household.

- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.

- Change clothes once you come home.

- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.

- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.

- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.

- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygiene. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.

- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.

What a ridiculous bubble

Really? What do you object to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.

- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).

- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.

- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.

- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)

- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.

- No pets and no smoking household.

- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.

- Change clothes once you come home.

- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.

- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.

- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.

- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygiene. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.

- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.

What a ridiculous bubble

Really? What do you object to?

NP but I object/don’t subscribe to pretty much everything above other than staying up to date on all childhood vaccinations (though as a family we’re hit or miss on flu vaccines and have stopped getting covid vaccines), having a nonsmoking household (which I wholeheartedly would insist upon), and eating healthy foods and fresh produce (which we try to enforce but admittedly could do a lot better with.)

Otherwise we’re pretty much the polar opposite of pp and my now middle school kids are healthy as can be and have never had anything more than a minor sniffle maybe once a year on average that they’ve quickly rebounded from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.

- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).

- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.

- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.

- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)

- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.

- No pets and no smoking household.

- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.

- Change clothes once you come home.

- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.

- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.

- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.

- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygine. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.

- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.

We do none of those things except vaccinations and no daycare because we didn’t need it. No antibiotics with my three kids. Germaphobes don’t build a healthy immunity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:- No daycare.

- No public transportation if we can afford it (like school bus).

- Everyone is vaccinated against flu. Kids up to date with vaccination.

- Stay home and rest if falling sick. No medicating with Tylenol and then sending sick kids to school.

- Mask when outside in public spaces that you don't care about (like Costco or grocery store)

- Hand washing, hand sanitizer, no shoes inside home, good personal hygiene, clean home.

- No pets and no smoking household.

- Make sure that you let people know that they cannot come to your house if they are sick - be it cleaners or other kids or relatives.

- Change clothes once you come home.

- Change your home filters regularly, keep a dust free home, have a UV light installed in your HVAC system.

- Eat and drink - healthy, nutritious and fresh food. Go organic. No cold drinks.

- Keep their heads warm. Dress appropriately for the weather. Make them have warm drinks.

- Make them rinse their mouth with warm salty water after every meal. Good oral hygiene. Gargle with salt water if they are old enough to gargle - twice a day when they brush their mouth.

- Nourish their gut bacteria - lots of fresh produce and yogurt.

What a ridiculous bubble

Really? What do you object to?

Old wives tales nonsense.

[Anonymous]

My kids have gotten the same colds/upper respiratory viruses as everyone else in the preschool years, S well as HFM. But so far (knock on wood) we’ve been spared from gastrointestinal viruses. We vaccinate everyone for the flu every year and have been lucky to avoid that so far. I have three kids - 7, 4 and 1. My oldest has been on antibiotics twice I think, once for an ear infection and once for strep and my 4 year old just went on antibiotics for the first time recently for strep. Thirds a baby. My first was bottle fed (breastmilk) and the other two were exclusively breastfed… so no rhyme or reason there as to how they haven’t had frequent ear infections or anything.

I think their immune systems just develop with exposure. We are pretty germ averse (we sanitize our hands a lot while out, avoid people we know are sick, I’ll wear a mask if I’m ever uncomfortable on public transportation, we strictly wash hands when we come home and we never get into bed with our street clothes, and generally avoid indoor public events in the winter to the extent that it feels reasonable), but even we come down with colds and viruses from school or work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are never sick. Oldest didn’t have any antibiotics till she was 5 years old.

They are gross. Sucked their thumbs and touched everything until they were 6 years old. Go to daycare. Public transportation. Pets. Basically everything the other poster above said they won’t do. Never sick.

+1, we also lived in a developing country for a couple of years when they were young which I think helped supercharge their immune system.